Search Engine Optimization Tips

How to Add Your URL to Search Engines

Getting listed quickly in search engines is something every online business owner wants to do. The faster you add your URL to search engines the faster you will start to get new customers from those search engines. Lots of online business owners don’t really know how to do this, though. Fortunately for them, there are three easy ways to getting listed quickly, which we will go over in this article. These ways include submitting the URL, using keywords, and using links to get listed quickly.

Tip #1: Submit your URL manually to search engines

Search engines like Google, Bing, Altavista and Yahoo all have options for you to manually submit your site. Before submitting, however, it is important to make sure of the following:

1. All pages on your site are complete. Search engine spiders won’t touch incomplete sites.

2. Your site is not full of spam and/or excessive use of keywords. Yet again, spiders won’t touch spam sites, which means your site will be skipped over if it contains lots of spam.

When you submit the site, make sure to submit it only once to each search engine. Submitting multiple times to the same search engine will get you no where. In fact, they might keep your site from ever having a chance at being listed on the search engine.

Here are some links to submit your website:

http://www.google.com/addurl/

http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html

http://www.bing.com/webmaster/SubmitSitePage.aspx

Tip #2: Use keywords to get spiders to come to your site

Search engine spiders absolutely love sites with good, well-placed and well-used keywords and key phrases. Keywords are words that are used frequently on a site that search engines look for. The key to correct usage of keywords is to make them fit naturally throughout a piece of content and not look like spam. Before writing your content for your site, take a second to decide what the content is about. Then make a list of keywords or key phrases that seem to fit with the topic at hand. Next, write the content and try to sprinkle in the keywords or key phrases throughout the content in a natural, non-distracting way. When you are done writing the content, you should count the number of keywords or key phrases. Then divide that by the total number of words in content. If the number you get is between 1-3%, you’re good to go. If it’s below 1%, try to naturally add in keywords or key phrases. If it’s above 5%, try to take out keywords or key phrases. Aim for the perfect balance of between 1 and 3%.

Tip #3: Use incoming backlinks

Having another website link to you will make spiders that visit the first website come to your website as a result of the link. Many owners of sites related to yours are happy to post a link to your site on their links page. Some might require what is called “reciprocal linking”. This basically means that if they place a link to your site on their page, they want you to return the favor by posting a link to their page on your site. Doing so helps both sites better gain the attention of search engine spiders and helps them both to get listed quickly.

If you apply just one of the tips above to your web site, you will get listed quicker than expected.

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